ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,429, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Management of user interface elements based on historical configuration data" was invented by Anna Marion Pfoertsch (Seattle), Karina Jennifer Chang (Seattle), Evan Russell Koschik (Seattle), Bret P. Anderson (Kirkland, Wash.), Clinton Rutkas (Sammamish, Wash.), Alex G. Snitkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jeffrey Evan Stall (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for management of user interface elements based on historical configuration data. Use of historical configuration data to render user...